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PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIN REEVES, OF GREENPORT, NEW YORK.

WASHING- MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,537, dated July 13, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRlN REEVES, of Greenport, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented an improvement upon my Washing-machine patented February 7, 1865 5 andIdo hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciflcation, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

vMy invention consists in an improvementupon the before-mentioned patent by which the rubber therein mentioned is made to act upon friction-rollers and a metal standard.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A represents a bench or stand upon which the tub B may stand. The tub may be of the ordinary form, and has upon its inside a series of vertical, or nearly vertical, ribs, a a., extending from its bottom to the top thereof.

The bottom 0 ofthe tub, on the inside, is furnished with radial iiutings or ribs b b, forming good rubbingsurface. The rubber D is scalloped at its perimeter, as shown at c, and has upon its under side, as exhibited in E, radial iutiugs or ribs d to act ingzonjunction with ribs b on the bottom ofthe tu The rubber D is of such diameter as to freely turn Within the tub, and may be turned by means of the lever e, united to the standards ff, which are letin or otherwise secured to the rubber for that purpose, and which standards are further united by a cross-piece, h, in which, as well as in the rubber at y and g, frictionrollers, six on thc middle cross-piece and six on the bottom, made of brass and banded together with the same metal, are inserted,which, playing; upon the standards I, made of brass, to prevent rust, cause the rubber to move easily, swiftly, and smoothly.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim isrlhe standard and friction-rollers g g in the rubbing-board D, in combination with a tub having ribs on its inner perimeter and radial iiutes or ribs on its bottom, the rubbing-board having` a scalloped perimeter and radial ribs on its under side, as and for the purposes herein described and represented.

Dated at Greenport, New York, May 29, 1865.

01min REEVES.

Witnesses:

B. R. SKINNER, E. E. D. SKINNEE. 

